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... rode away again to the South , and to the harassed and ravaged frontier of Virginia . How much this little interlude , pushed into a corner as it has been by the dignity of history , - how much it tells of the real man ! How the statu ...
... rode away again to the South , and to the harassed and ravaged frontier of Virginia . How much this little interlude , pushed into a corner as it has been by the dignity of history , - how much it tells of the real man ! How the statu ...
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... rode away with his despatches , but on his return he paused at the White House , the home of Mrs. Custis , and then and there plighted his troth with the charming widow . The wooing was brief and decisive , and the successful lover ...
... rode away with his despatches , but on his return he paused at the White House , the home of Mrs. Custis , and then and there plighted his troth with the charming widow . The wooing was brief and decisive , and the successful lover ...
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... rode at the front . The fields , it is to be feared , were sometimes small , but Washing- ton hunted even if he had only his stepson or was quite alone . His diaries abound with allusions to the sport . " Went a - hunting with Jacky ...
... rode at the front . The fields , it is to be feared , were sometimes small , but Washing- ton hunted even if he had only his stepson or was quite alone . His diaries abound with allusions to the sport . " Went a - hunting with Jacky ...
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... rode through the bushes and saw his poaching friend just shoving off in a canoe . The rascal raised his gun and covered his pursuer , whereupon Washington , the cold - blooded and pa- tient person so familiar in the myths , dashed his ...
... rode through the bushes and saw his poaching friend just shoving off in a canoe . The rascal raised his gun and covered his pursuer , whereupon Washington , the cold - blooded and pa- tient person so familiar in the myths , dashed his ...
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... rode with him , and appeared at her ladyship's ball the next night . It was not his way to bite his thumb at men from whom he differed politically , nor to call the motives of his opponents in question . But when the 1st of June arrived ...
... rode with him , and appeared at her ladyship's ball the next night . It was not his way to bite his thumb at men from whom he differed politically , nor to call the motives of his opponents in question . But when the 1st of June arrived ...
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